So the expectation would be that the authors of the artwork, Magdalenian people of the nearby La Vache cave, were bison hunters and not that their prey would be essentially ibex, as is actually the case.15 This observed discordance between animals hunted and animals depicted is too consistent to be a chance outcome. This brings to mind an observation made by Claude Lévi-Strauss in a different context: “It is not sufficient that a food is good to eat; it also has to be good to think.”
